European Exploration
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Middle Colonies were known for this kind of agricultural production
What are grains or “breadbasket crops”?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break away from British rule and helped inspire the Declaration of Independence.
What is Common Sense?
This document, ratified in 1788, replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a stronger central government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This doctrine, issued by James Monroe in 1823, warned European powers not to colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The main motive behind Spanish exploration of the Americas was summed up by this phrase.
What is “God, Gold, and Glory”?
This colony was founded by Puritans in 1630.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This 1770 event, where British soldiers killed 5 colonists, was used as Patriot propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1794 event saw farmers protest a federal tax on distilled spirits, testing the strength of the new national government.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1820 agreement maintained the balance of free and slave states and admitted Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This system allowed Spanish settlers to extract labor and tribute from Indigenous people.
What is the encomienda system?
The Atlantic Slave Trade was part of this larger system of exchange.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This treaty ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
This 1798 set of laws passed by the Federalists made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and allowed for the deportation of "dangerous" foreigners.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This law, signed by Jackson in 1830, led to the forced relocation of Native Americans along the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This ancient social structure divided people into strict hereditary groups.
What is the Casta system?
This economic system encouraged European powers to acquire colonies and labor for profit.
What is mercantilism?
Loyalists were often persecuted and targeted by this group of patriots.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Drafted by James Madison and passed in 1791, these first ten amendments to the Constitution protected individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This phrase described the relative political harmony during Monroe’s presidency.
What is the “Era of Good Feelings”?
This type of business allows investors to pool their money for a common purpose and share profits.
What is a joint-stock company?
This religious movement swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Jefferson’s 1807 law that banned trade with all foreign nations and hurt the U.S. economy.
What is the Embargo Act?